What Is the Registration Color Good For?

The InDesign Swatches panel includes four undeletable swatches: None, Black, Paper, and Registration. The purpose of the first three is obvious. You probably know not to use Registration for any object to appear on the printed page, but do you know why?
The Registration color prints on every ink plate. In CMYK, that means anything with [...]

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been there. done that.

been there. done that.

i’ve been to budapest.
and i liked it. see?

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What Is the Registration Color Good For?

The InDesign Swatches panel includes four undeletable swatches: None, Black, Paper, and Registration. The purpose of the first three is obvious. You probably know not to use Registration for any object to appear on the printed page, but do you know why?
The Registration color prints on every ink plate. In CMYK, that means anything with [...]

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What do you think about the new photoshop logo?

Hey… I just stumble upon the new logo for photoshop… Is this better then the Photoshop Cs3 logo?
I think not. Ok it’s not bad but i think it’s way worse then the previous. I’m curious also to see if illustrator and indesign and all the programs will have a new logo or it’s just for [...]

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Desktop Publishing as a Freelance Business

I found this usefull tips if you want to start your own business.

Assess your entrepreneurial abilities. Learn the business side of design.
Assess your design skills. Acquire at least basic design skills and knowledge.
Develop a business plan. Plan your business and work your plan.
Choose a business structure. Assess the best business structure for your business.
Get the [...]

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What Is the Registration Color Good For?

The InDesign Swatches panel includes four undeletable swatches: None, Black, Paper, and Registration. The purpose of the first three is obvious. You probably know not to use Registration for any object to appear on the printed page, but do you know why?
The Registration color prints on every ink plate. In CMYK, that means anything with [...]

Automatic Drag-N-Drop Image Libraries

For image-intensive page layout in InDesign, selecting images visually is better than doing it by filename, and dragging and dropping is easier than File > Place. Rorohiko’s ImageLibraryLoader is a free script-based plug-in for Mac and Windows versions of InDesign CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4. It automatically builds a thumbnail library of images in a [...]

webee changes face

webee changes face

Hi there.
We decided to change the face of webee
and the new face is a Bee…weBeeeee
We are still working on the theme and please be pacient with us until we finish.
As new features..we will have a portofolio with works involving 5 people…a nest of bees..from different areas: print design, web-design, illustration and ecommerce
So stay in [...]

how to take inspired photographs

how to take inspired photographs

Do you want your photographs to be like visual poetry? Then follow this advice from Chris Orwig, the popular workshop speaker and Brooks Institute faculty member.
Whether you are an amateur or professional, this guide provides inspiration, simple techniques, and assignments to boost your creative process and improve your digital images using natural light and no [...]

CreativePro.com’s top 10 articles of 2008

10. Selectively Adjust Color in Photoshop
In this tutorial, Chad Neuman demonstrates techniques that change the hue of only part of an image and without obscuring details underneath the new color.
www.creativepro.com/article/selectively-adjust-color-photoshop
9. 10 Quick Macro Shooting Tips
Mason Resnick proves that once you eliminate the variables, you’ll end up with nothing but great macro shots.

www.creativepro.com/article/10-quick-macro-shooting-tips
8. First Look: QuarkXPress [...]

Desktop Publishing as a Freelance Business

I found this usefull tips if you want to start your own business.

Assess your entrepreneurial abilities. Learn the business side of design.
Assess your design skills. Acquire at least basic design skills and knowledge.
Develop a business plan. Plan your business and work your plan.
Choose a business structure. Assess the best business structure for your business.
Get the [...]

winners - Wolda 2008


Wolda announces the ‘08 winners: 192 logos selected from almost 1100 entries submitted from 43 different countries around the world. The overall winner of Wolda ‘08 is the “One Degree” logo from Landor Associates (Australia), designed for News Limited by Jason Little, Tim Warren, Steve Clarke and Mike Staniford.

And from Romania the winner is [...]

Adobe CS4

Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4. Here are first-hand impressions of three of the new versions.
I can’t wait to try it.
For begining take a look at some of the new InDesign CS4 features:

The ability to add effects to an object’s stroke, fill and/or content
Support for Photoshop 3D artwork
Support for Illustrator CS4 artboards
Edit With menu [...]

nice google charts

You need some charts that are not so doll like excel charts? This is your answer: google charts.
It’s not so complicated as it seems. After a while you get the hang of it. You just have to be carefull at the symbols and letters that you have to introduce after each formula. Here is an [...]

steps for a folding indesign brochure

steps for a folding indesign brochure

1. open a new document with the following settings.

2. when you create the layout split it into 3 parts
- the frontpage of the brochure should be divided into: 97 mm/ 100mm/100mm.
- divide also the backpage into: 100 mm/ 100 mm/ 97 mm.
doing this you will create a brochure that will fold (the backpage and [...]